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Also, the 355th Fighter Wing operates the A-10C Demonstration Team. They've added a couple special paint jobs to the demo jets.
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Sunday afternoon, for a period of about an hour, there were two F/A-18s just flying maneuvers over our house. It was awesome to watch them turn sharply and hear that roar. No idea where they were out of...Dover maybe?
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On another note, I just started Dan Carlin's King of Kings podcast about the ancient civilizations like Sparta, the Assyrians, Persians, etc. Such good stuff.
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Shaf, could you tell if the Hornets were Legacy jets or Supers?
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Explorers with Caladan Oceanic, a private marine tech company, have located the wreck of the USS Johnston, which sunk in the Battle Off Samar. The wreck is the deepest shipwreck ever explored--21,180 feet down in the Philippine Trench,
https://gizmodo.com/navy-ship-sunk-in-h ... 1846620990
https://gizmodo.com/navy-ship-sunk-in-h ... 1846620990
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Very cool.
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What a man.
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The S.A.R. has improved its application records database in recent years, recently renaming it the Patriot Research System. Some entries have biographies as well. https://www.sar.org/patriot-research-system/Had a breakthrough with family ancestry this week and found my 6x great grandpa was in the 2nd NH regiment and fought under Lafayette in Yorktown amongst all the other fights. That regiment was badass and I can't believe I have a relative that fought in all of these battles. I drank a lot of chocolate stouts and listened to Hamilton in honor of him last night. His family cemetery is still standing in new hampshire with 4 other ancestors and we have made plans to visit this summer.
Seems one can now search by cemetery as well. That's new since the last time I had looked.
We often have folks share their patriot ancestor stories that they have researched. Well, when I make an S.A.R. meeting anyway. Even the virtual ones this last year I was only able to participate in one of them.
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This is good stuff. The interpreter passed away in late 2019.
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This is worth an hour of your time:
They do a really nice job incorporating newsreels, other films, and documentaries to verify the history. It's really well done...right in time for Memorial Day.
They do a really nice job incorporating newsreels, other films, and documentaries to verify the history. It's really well done...right in time for Memorial Day.
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Wait, Woody Harrelson is in this? Is that becoming more common place now?
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Yeah, he plays Nimitz. What do you mean by common place? The movie isn’t bad, other than the CGI fest - but not much you can do about that. Only a handful of the planes and none of the ships exist today.
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Bet that guy could toss a grenade.
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RIP Edgar. This is from a few weeks ago but did not see it posted.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/surviving-mar ... d=77609468
https://abcnews.go.com/US/surviving-mar ... d=77609468
The last surviving Marine of the USS Indianapolis, the U.S. Navy ship that sank in July 1945, died this weekend.
Edgar Harrell was 96 and lived at the Tennessee State Veterans Home in Clarksville, Tennessee, the official Facebook page of the ship posted Saturday.
Harrell was one of 316 crew members who survived the attack by Japanese forces, waiting for help in shark-infested waters for four days.
"During his time aboard ship, he helped guard components of the atomic bomb. After the torpedoing, he was a hero amongst his shipmates," the post said.
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This is happening in Reading (about 45 minutes away from me) this weekend. Might take the trip up there tomorrow.
Would love to meet some more WWII vets.
http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
Would love to meet some more WWII vets.
http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
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77 years ago today, General Eisenhower wrote his famous speech that never was
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Today is also the 79th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. My high school history teacher posted this today.
Today is the anniversary of the 1942 Battle of Midway. Many historians consider this the turning point in the war against Japan. There is a great local connection to the victory. Due to code breaking, the American Navy knew the Japanese were coming but that’s it. They still needed to be located in the Pacific Ocean, not an easy task with no satellites and primitive radar. The Navy sent out PBY search planes to look for the Japanese Navy. The pilot who spotted the Japanese fleet was Lt. William Chase of Altoona (pictured below). If you’ve seen the 1976 movie Midway, his plane is the one they referred to as Strawberry Five. Having spotted the main strike force first, he gave the Americans the advantage needed for our outnumbered fleet to strike first and sink four Japanese aircraft carriers. Four of the six that had attacked Pearl Harbor just six months before. His plane also sent the warning, “Many planes headed Midway” giving island defenders some advanced warning.
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This YouTube channel is awesome.
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Amazing
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James Hornfischer, author of naval history and literary agent, died on 2 June from cancer at 55. I just happened to stumble upon his obit in Google Now or whatever. God bless the algorithm. The good news is he has three new books coming out, including a graphic novel of his finest work, the Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. @Shyster
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituar ... r-10217895
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituar ... r-10217895
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Ah, damn it all. **** cancer.
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